At the time this column is being written the New England Patriots and St. Louis Cardinals are unbeaten and Dartmouth has lost its first two football games. Fortunately, the accomplishments of our classmates' are more predictable than football games.
Robert Friend III has been appointed head of the English Department of Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. After graduating from Dartmouth, Bob received a master's degree in English at the University of North Carolina. Dick Stoddart has been named to the newly-created position of director of communications for Eaton Corporation. In his new position, Dick will have the responsibility for directing and coordinating the company's public relations and internal communications functions on a worldwide basis. Dick joined Eaton in 1971.
Paul Robertson leads a most diversified life on the West Coast. Paul, his wife Annie and two children live in Menlo Park, Calif. Paul is in law practice with the firm of Robertson and Hand in Palo Alto where he specializes in civil and criminal litigation. In addition, Paul is a principal in Capital Preservation Fund, Inc., a No- Load Bond and Money Market Fund which has over 2,000 shareholders in 46 states. The Fund invests short-term only in U.S. Government securities and has over $12 million in net assets. In addition, Paul has kept up with his music and plays saxophone and flute professionally in a Bay Area jazz group. At Dartmouth, Paul played with the Barbary Coast and Sultans.
Norman N. Sylvester has been named vice president of advertising for the Pepsi-Cola company and is responsible for supervising adver- tising for all of the Pepsi-Cola soft drink brands, which include Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Patio, and Teem. Norm holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Theodore K. Furber has been appointed a senior attorney at Libbey-Ownes-Ford Co. Ted formerly worked for Boise Cascade Corp.
From the Northwest, we received word that Dr. Robert Ten Bensel has joined the University of Minnesota as a full professor in a combined appointment to the School of Public Health and the Pediatrics Department. Dr. Ten Bensel has been active in fostering child abuse legislation and education and is nationally known in the child protection field. He started the child abuse team at General Hospital at the University of Minnesota and is a member of the state program on child abuse. In 1971, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Minnesota Medical Foundation and the Minnesota State Medical Society.
John C. Trimble is the new chairman of the Miliburn-Short Hills, N.J., Chapter of the American Red Cross. In addition, John is a vice president of Fidelity Union Trust Company and is a trustee of Symphony Hall. John received a master's in Business Administration from Rutgers University after graduating from Dartmouth.
Reverend Jim Crawford accepted this spring the call to become senior minister of Boston's Old South Church. He had previously been co-pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in New York City. Jim earned his B.D. degree from Union Theological in 1962 and subsequently served churches in New York City and Bayonne, N.J. The church's announcement of Jim's call, referring to his impressive height, says, "The Old South has two towers now? Yes - this is our new one - the other is stone, with a belfry."
Dr. Edward D. Harris Jr., Associate Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, has been elected to the America-Society for Clinical Investigation, an organic tion which recognizes workers for their contributions to biomedical research. Ted joined the Dartmouth Medical School Staff in 1970 as an assistant professor of medicine and has been carrying on investigative research into the problems present in deforming arthritis. He is chief of the connective tissue disease section at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospita". Hanover and on the consulting staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital, White River Junction Vt. He earned his M.D. degree cum laude and the Maimonides Award from Harvard Medics School in 1962. Currently Ted is on a five-year Research Career Development Award granted by the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease of the National Institute of Health. Ted is currently on a year's sabbatical in Cambridge, England, with the Strangeways Laboratories.
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